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Why Do People Believe What They Do? A Functionalist Perspective - PMC

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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1. Published in final edited form as: Rev Gen Psychol. 2016 Dec 1;20(4):399–411. doi: 10.1037/gpr0000085 Abstract Why do people believe what they do? Scholars and laypeople alike tend to answer this question by focusing on the representational functions of beliefs (i.e., representing the world accurately). However, a growing body of theory and research indicates that beliefs also can serve important hedonic functions (i.e., decreasing/increasing negative or positive emotional states). In this manuscript, we describe: (1) the features of…

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